Justin Pirie, Director of Communities and Content for Mimecast, takes a look at the ongoing debate around cloud standards.
Recent research conducted by Mimecast has found that a large proportion of businesses are now using some form of cloud service, with a further 30 percent planning on adopting more cloud services in the future. Fashionable new architectures within the technology industry are not unusual. However, even allowing for a certain amount of bandwagon jumping, this rate of cloud adoption has been considerable.
- JUSTIN PIRIE
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